Reply-To: "Frank Maier" <*f_r_maier@msn.com>
From: "Frank Maier" <F_R_Maier@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: New EAA Oshkosh Admission Policy
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:54:17 -0700
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Well, I'll throw in my $.02 as I pack to head down to SNF...

I'm not much of a joiner. I don't belong to AOPA and I don't belong to EAA.
Of the two, I was thinking hard about joining EAA 'cause I'm thinking hard
about building an airchine, of some kind depending entirely, of course, on
my wife's imprimatur.

But I'm part mule, which part, I won't say. The surest way to piss me off
and make me confrontational is to tell me I *hafta* do something. This type
of policy ensures that I will never join EAA.

If they're looking for new blood (and who isn't?), I'd bet that they just
alienated a whole bunch of folks.

And that's my curmudgeonly riposte,

Frank (See y'all next Tuesday nite! Wednesday on the flightline.)


Daniel Grunloh wrote in message <7edoh9$l05$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>...
>In article <370a32ba.2148457@news.gv.net>,
>   jim@rst-engr.com (Jim Weir) wrote:
>>I offer this information through clenched teeth and without editorial
>>comment, insofar as I am capable of that...
>>
>>The EAA policy this year is that ALL people coming through the gate
>>will be EAA members or family of EAA members.  ALL people.  Even the
>>locals coming to watch the airshow.
>
>Jim I sure wish you WOULD offer some opinion.  The question of
>admission policy is not an easy one.  Surely you have an opinion
>about how it should be done.
>
>Do you favor the old two level system with separate public and
>flightline passes and how would you decide who gets in and who
>is kept out?  It has been well established that the members
>don't want just EVERBODY getting in and climbing all over the
>airplanes.  Would they have to be members for at least 12
>months, or own their own plane or something?
>
>I remember there were a lot of reasons mentioned a couple of years
>ago for going to to a single admission level. Are those reasons not
>valid in your view?  Maybe that is where you differ?
>
>I believe this change is related to that issue and is not due to
>any imagined nefarious motives.  I DO think it is good though
>if as many people as possible become members, take the magazine
>and become informed about sport aviation.  I don't want it to be a
>simple commercial excercise intended primarily to raise funds
>and keep the membership cost low.
>
>My concern right now is that I can't bring in a non-family friend
>as a guest unless he joins EAA.  I guess that is a change I'll have
>to accept unless you can come up with better scheme for next year.
>
>--------------
>Daniel Grunloh (grunloh@uiuc.edu)
>http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~grunloh


